This is the story of a girl
just a small town girl living in a lonely world.
She’s her daddy’s girl, her mama’s world
She starts dancing when the stars come out
She’s a little bit of heaven with a wild side
She’s got a rebel heart a country mile wide
She loves to dance. She loves to sing. She does everything. She loves to move. She loves to groove.
I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
Well, Mom found her a new place to live and dad found him a new girlfriend.
All I want is the way it was when love would always last forever.
Before I got caught in the middle somewhere in between two houses.
Best friends talking 'til the daylight
Took the joys alongside the pain
With not much to lose but so much to gain
I’m trying to take it back until it all went wrong, before the worst
Your light was bright and new
He didn’t care
He took the heart of a little girl and made it grow up too fast
Now words like innocence don’t mean a thing
She closed her eyes
The blood flows as she cries
He leans down to comfort her and He wraps His arms around her
The deeper you cut, the deeper it hurts
The deeper you cut, it only gets worse.
She looked up and found relief in His life
and put down her knives
It’s always darkest before the dawn.
Shake it out. It’s hard to dance with the devil on your back so shake him off.
She heard the voice of Jesus say,
“Come to Me, weary one, and rest. You don’t have to be strong enough. I am strong enough for the both of us. Lay your shattered pieces down and be amazed by how grace can take a broken girl and put her back together again."
“Come to Me, weary one, and rest. You don’t have to be strong enough. I am strong enough for the both of us. Lay your shattered pieces down and be amazed by how grace can take a broken girl and put her back together again."
That tattoo might one thing I tell my kid’s not to do...
Every storm runs out of rain.
Every dark night turns into day.
Every heartache will fade away.
It’s going to set you free.
In this life I know where I’ve been, but here in Your arms I know what I am.
I’m forgiven.
I don’t have to carry the weight of who I’ve been because I’m forgiven.
WHen I don’t fit in and I don’t feel like I belong anywhere.
When I don’t measure up to much in this life
I am a treasure in the arms of Christ.
You are my heart, every breath I breathe
I'm safe in Your arms, You rescue me.
When I'm weak, You're strong
If You were gone I don't know where I'd be
This life would kill me if I didn’t have You.
If You didn’t love me so much, I’d never make it through.
Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. Why are we here? And where do we go? And how come it’s so hard? It’s not always easy and I can tell you one thing. It’s always better when we’re together.
Because we’re all in this together.
Am I proof that grace can really change a heart?
People pass and even if they don’t my name, is there evidence that I’ve been changed?
I wanna live like that and give it all I have so that everything I say and do points to You.
If love is who I am, then this is where I’ll stand.
Recklessly abandoned, never holding back.
As far as I can see I have everything I want.
I got shoes under my feet. Forever in the eye staring back at me and it’s alright. I got all I need.
May be a simple life, but that’s okay. If you ask me, I think I’ve got it made.
It’s a goofy thing, but I’ve just gotta say, “Hey. I’m doing alright.”
and it’s a great day to be alive.
I know the sun’s still shining when I close my eyes.
Your eyes are story.
An ocean of memories.
Pictures of faces and places and all of the things that make us feel like we have it all.
With every sunrise comes a new light
Life is beautiful.
Go be young.
Go be free.
Follow your heart where it leads.
Sing a simple melody.
Let your heart be your compass when you’re lost.
And You should follow it wherever it may go.
Don’t close your eyes.
Don’t be afraid.
When it’s all said and done, you can walk instead of run
No matter what, you’ll never be alone.
Summers heat. Winter’s cold. Seasons pass and years will roll.
But right here. Right now.
Live like there’s no tomorrow.
Love like you’re on borrowed time.
I won’t take it for granted.
I won’t waste another second
All I want to give is a life well-lived to say thank you.
It’s good to be alive.
